Eneas Africanus by Harry Stilwell Edwards (1920)

$45.00

1940's reprint of 1920's hardback release.

Good hardback in fair dust jacket.

Dust jacket has a couple of spine chips. Unclipped. Wrapped in Mylar.

An anachronistic oddity...a last literary gasp of post-US Civil War racism.

Georgian born Harry Stilwell Edwards wrote this pro-slavery novella (really a chaptered short story) in 1920, perpetuating Confederacy-style tropes about southern blacks and the "character building benefits" of good ol' southern-fried slavery.

The character of Eneas, a former slave, embarks on a "holy grail-style" quest to recovered the prized property of his former owner to prove his steadfast loyalty to his erstwhile master, even in freedom.

This book is a historical artefact; a populist relic of the "Jim Crow" south.

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